Undergraduate Summer Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

密歇根州立大学的本科生暑期研究项目每个暑期将资助9名学生。在为期12周的计划中，每个参与者都将参与一个研究项目，由生物化学系的一名教员监督。申请者将从全国各地的学院和大学招聘，重点是中西部的学校。重点从本科院校和少数民族招生较多的高校招生。每个学生将选出一位研究导师。所有学生都将参加一个关于化学和生物安全以及血液传播病原体的迎新计划和研讨会。在项目期间，学生将参加每周一次的教师研究研讨会系列，以及每周一次的研究生、本科生和博士后研究员与他们的研究导师的研究会议。学生将接受使用计算机准备研究文件、出版质量图表和幻灯片的培训，以及使用计算机程序进行蛋白质和DNA建模和序列分析的培训。将为参与者组织一次演讲，讨论生物化学领域的职业机会，包括研究生项目招生主任提出的关于博士项目申请的指导。在项目结束时，学生们将准备海报和简短的演讲，介绍他们的研究，展示给教职员工、研究生和生物化学系的同行。这些演讲的摘要将以小册子的形式出版。

973227O The Undergraduate Summer Research program at Michigan State University will support 9 students for each summer. During the 12-week program each participant will work on a research project supervised by one of the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry. Applicants will be recruited from colleges and universities across the country with a concentration on schools in the Midwest. Special emphasis will be placed on recruiting from undergraduate institutions and from colleges and universities with a high minority enrollment. Each student will select a research mentor. All students will participate in an orientation program and a workshop on chemical and biology safety and blood-borne pathogens. During the program the students will participate in a weekly faculty research seminar series, and in weekly research meetings of graduate students, undergraduate students and postdoctoral fellows with their research mentors. Students will be trained in the use of computers for preparation of research documents, publication quality figures and slides, and in the use of computer programs for protein and DNA modeling and sequence analysis. A presentation will be organized for participants to discuss career opportunities in biochemistry including an orientation concerning Ph.D. program applications presented by the Graduate Programs Admission Director. At the conclusion of the program, the students will prepare posters and brief talks on their research for presentation to faculty, graduate students, and peers in the Department of Biochemistry. Abstracts of these presentations will be published in booklet form.